Ok, kill me. None of my other blogs have anything to do with the book whose manuscript I am currently working on, except for a few tid bits at the end where I give really vague updates. I apologize for that. Unfortunately, due to the more rogue-ish people out there, I attempt to give myself some protection from thieves by not telling everything about the storyline, the title, or even the relations of the characters themselves. I'd hate for all my work to be shot to pieces because of some despicable person. I've been working too hard and too long, over a year so far, on this and don't want to lose it all. Before you get any ideas about stealing any of my characters, I've sent my full character list to a private publisher, so technically its already copyrighted. You steal any of this, I WILL sue you into a hole. Fair warning.

Now that all the unfortunate bull is explained, I am going to clue you in on the very few things I can tell you. It is a fairy tale. Not so much a prince/princess story, but a true "fairy" tale. The main character is Azure. Her partner is Butterscotch, a dragon that is only twice her size. They go on many journeys together and under this course, Azure grows up. Right now I'm working on the part of the marriage scene, which involves Azure and he best friend from childhood, Brass. from what I've been told, (there've been many friends of mine who've read through various unfinished parts of the manuscript)that the whole storyline is so different from any others that they've read and that it is very engaging. I take that as a compliment. You don't know how badly I'd love to put up the first chapter on here, but unfortunately, the first paragraph of this blog covers why I can't. Just thought all my loyal readers would love to know what's going on.

Amazing Things I'm Not Sure I Can Do...

I know with my wonderful talents there are at least 93 things I am physically capable of doing not only well, but profitably. Now, one normally would look at me and say, "Then why not do them?" My simple answer is the same between people like me everywhere you go. Money. Currently I am technically unemployed, therefore "broke."

I am writing a novel, though it isn't finished yet and thus, cannot be published, because people don't buy half written books. If it isn't published, I don't profit from it. It's an unfortunate way to be, but every writer goes through the same run-around at some point or another. Take J.K. Rowling, she was dirt poor and "broke" before she completed her first Harry Potter book, look at her now. That's where I'm aspiring to get, eventually. Another difference between her and I, she only had about 70 or so characters that everyone could name and remember, I have twice that. It's harder than you think to sit down and devote your entire mind to a different world than that of where you live. Every character, species, and place has to have a different personality, not to mention different things going on with them that cannot in any way be based upon any other novel (for my lawyers sake). Also preparing the sequels of the book, which in my case, enumerate to about 9 (so far), very different from the Harry Potter series. The only real tangible thing that is nearly the same is that her books and mine occur in the magical realm. Other than that, I have one healthy, insanely huge undertaking. Praise me later.

Side note: After this post I've decided to generate updates on my progress throughout the book to update my possible fans on how it's coming.

That, shockingly isn't all that I could do for a living. I am very good at sculpting, but as everyone knows, not only does that take a massive amount of money (for supplies), but also time. Right now, every waking hour is taken up by my book or online doing research or blogs. I've thought very hard at using my book as a base for the sculptures, but that really wouldn't help me much at getting the books roots finished to have it published and subsequently land me a large enough fan base for an original sculpture to be cast.

I've also thought about making soap. Sounds simple right? Not really. I wanted to make soap that I'm not allergic to. Getting more difficult, eh? I am allergic to most soap fragrances (maybe it's all the chems), and so I wanted to plant an herb garden to use for the fragrance. I believe that's called organic soap. Maybe someone else could profit from it, but it (again) is such a large, time-consuming, undertaking. Maybe after the book.

Please don't think that I have ADD or something. I don't think I do, though I've never been expertly undiagnosed. I just have a whole slew of ideas that pop into my head every second I'm alive about stuff that has nothing to do with the things I am working on.

A&B Update: I've finished the Central and Southwestern land maps (for the front of the book) as well as completed the 14th chapter. Haven't established all the partnering order yet.





Once I get my copyright run through completely, I'll be able to release the title of the book as well as some of the plot lines, as of yet, it's not completed, so I'll be using A&B as the working title name. Forgive me.

Totally Pissed At Chat Room Goers

Everyone who is even mildly intelligent knows what I mean here. I am totally pissed off at AOL and other large IM/chat companies who just sit idly by and watch our country being overrun by complete bumbling idiots.

Take, for example, a tour of your AIM member created chat rooms. I did that last night. I won't do it again. All I did was ask anyone if they knew where any authors hung out on AOL and they told me where, right after I got 10,000 IMs popping up asking me if I made sex help books and if "I'd teach them a thing or two." Grrr! Look, I don't go into chat rooms to find love, a cheap date, or to have phone/IM/or real-life sex. I go there to get inspiration for my book. I have 134 characters and they all need to have more than just an evil, hate-filled personality. Right now I have 14 of my characters figured out based upon people in my family or people who are close to me, but not all of my characters can be based on people I know to be relate-able to other people. I'm not writing a book so my family will like it (I already know they do), I'm writing it so that nearly everyone will like it.

Bringing unrealistic characters to the table is like damning your characters to store shelves forever. I'd hate to do that to them. The very few (2) people I have based characters on in the book will get a note in the published book itself as a thank you. If you've ever wanted to be one of those people that big time people thank at an awards ceremony, then you'll let me get to know you more than just your appearance. I promise, you will all have your names (maybe if they're just screen names) in the thank you section of my book.